Health Education Consultation

Health Education Counsultation for schools, churches, and community organizations

Why Provide Puberty Education

Children are maturing physically at younger ages. When children notice body changes, and don’t understand them as normal events of puberty, they can become frightened and think something is wrong with them.

Young people who learn about puberty and sex from both their parents and their school are less likely to have sexual intercourse than young people who learn about it from only one source.

Young people get mixed messages about sex. Sex is still considered a dirty word and a taboo subject, yet sex is everywhere. It appears on the internet, movies, and television shows, is used to sell products, and is the topic of jokes and conversations.

Our young people are receiving distorted messages about sexuality and sex from the media, entertainers, music, and their peers. In a year of television viewing, a young person sees more than 9,000 scenes of sexual behavior, 80% of which occur outside a marriage relationship. Often, sex and violence are combined in popular music.

Intimate sexual behavior is the primary mode of transmission of HIV infection.

Sexually transmitted diseases continue to spread at alarming rates. Seventy-five percent of all sexually transmitted diseases are found in young people aged 15 to 24.